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Why Do We Laugh? with Nuar Alsadir

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Connection Between Being Real and People Laughing

When I started doing my research, it was really do Shen laughter I was interested in because it's an escape from the unconscious and I'm a psychoanalyst. And so we sometimes laugh because something is funny, but most often when we're really laughing to Shen laughter, it's not rational or logical. It's this escape from this primal part of ourselves which the psychoanalyst Winnecott would call the true self. He says the true self is in every infant when they're born. It'sThis wellspring of spontaneous creative energy that the infant will express in the spontaneous gestures and sounds. If the mother makes a very gendered infant and a mother, if the mother responds,

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